Borjomi employees demanding meeting with PM as plants stopped due to Russian stakeholder

Employees of Georgian mineral water company Borjomi have demanded a meeting with the General Director of the company, former official Ivane Machavariani and Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili after both bottling plants  “temporarily stopped working” due to a sanctioned Russian oligarch with controlling shares.

Garibashvili said on April 30 that the government would provide “good news” about Borjomi to the public “very soon.”

Machavariani became the director of Borjomi in June 2021, after leaving the post of Minister of Finance of Georgia he had held since 2018.

On April 29, 2022, IDS Borjomi-Georgia announced that it “temporarily” suspended production.

A key owner of Borjomi is “Alpha Group ” of a sanctioned Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman.